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Show I SINN FEIN NOW I FORMING NEW V TRIBUNAL Supreme Court of Appeals to J Be Established by Irish Republic ' DUB&2N, Aug 1 4 Sinn Fein Is organising, or-ganising, under the name of th Irli i jty 3 Kf-piihllr.i 11 Ki rnment, S suprora mBfztf ftppo which, a hi isi fkm will complete the lyitem of tribunal?! HW no successful in handling minor nis -putes for !. past months. The hlfch- t t urt ..f the British gi M In Ireland has vlrtunlly ceased to IHH 'unction, because appeals have been Hk?t9 irlth drawn and many litigants decline fLmJ :o recognize that It has unci authority IBB Arthur Griffith, the lender of Sinn tr I 1 1 in reland, told Th Associated X Preaa that it hart nc be Bi .vhcther to have thre or five Judges 'A ,,, t : me bench, nor had any of Smk I,, Judges been selected. "Our lower courts have been iuc- eaeful In checking the move of 1 rime V that was sweeping over Ireland a few ABM months ago." said Mr Griffith "What- tSW Mfr may be stild about tho Republl- IBBBBI ran government by our enemies. It H must be. and la, admitted that petty BBBBJ crime has been on the wane all over BBBBb the country since our courts began to funrtlon. Naturally many BBtl both criminal and civil, have been ap- HKB pealed; but we have no court higher IBSBBJ .nan a district court to which we MB Appeal oiling up B the need of a supreme court Is jB ncreastng every day. jf-ii CANT STOP OOl RT. H tMm "YVo do not anticipate any more HI j trouble with the military and police in BBsw holding meetings of the supreme court WjLW we have had In connection with ;he lower ones. Now and then an arrn- JpB ed fori e prevent! their being held, bul KtwAb In that case the court meets again L Mm lomewhere else. In Instance have PjHfl the troops and police permanently utjAgBH prevented cases from being tried." ErjBtBl The plan for forestalling British BgBl Judges and courts 1 very simple, but jflj ;, the WJmmmm fleer arrest them and Imprison them. ajBJBJ they go on hunger strike and suhse- wJPjbj quently are released, hence. British jKajVH authorities have ceased to use lmprls-BJ lmprls-BJ y nnment ns a weapon, and their courts J ii.-e nipldlv ceasing to function. JPjbjbE All officers of the Sinn Fein and I P curts. are tinder the Juris- jaHj llctlon of the Department of Justice PjPjVB if the republic. j MIDI. RY DECISIO? BHJ Each litigant In a civil action agrees IpbT 0 abide by the decision and not to take B jp the r ase In an 'enemy court"' me.m- K9H Iqg British institution, in Inland HpH This agreement nnd the weight of pub- ISAbJ He opinion constitutes the power of the jjHfl new courts In civil cases. The power Vvfll In criminal cases lies with the Irish P"JH volunteers, a force that Is becoming 1 less and less secretive In Its activities vis rhe courts are held in public halls, or JHjbH In any place convenient, and reports j yl of lhi destruction of the court house! jJHfl' of the British government come In al- XnAY,. most dally. Blnn 1 fin h-s no pr'sons Sentence WBjl In more sermui criminal - hi. I :- BIBB nn" must dreaded, l ilepi.rl i ! ion, ns- SABl Ually to England Penalties for minor Hjjpjjpjjpj offenses are usually a modification BpBpfl Mo- system BJ The sums swarded by the court to BE the victims of "malicious injuries'' In Ei J3 eland now aggregate nearly $5,000.- Bg 000. They are payable out of local tax- H es. and It Is the duty of the new local B Sinn F In councils to levy and collect B JLr money. This they refuse to do and, j BBBJ so far. the relatives of the murdered B are unable to obtain payment. Even if 1 HJH the Sinn Fein councils were willing to HfTX assist the claimants, however, the sum Is so great that It 1s said It would 4 . prove intolerable to the overhurdened Hp9j' taxpayers." UNION1OT8 OBJ r, P The largest taxpayers are Fnlonlsts, NH v. ho do not relish the prospect of hav- gMH Ing to pay for the outrages of men X whom they have not the smallest . dm '-mpathy. There has. therefore, been tJLm started an agitation for relieving otti- zens of the li ir.len of these charges. Il The argument Is, that these outrages Were undoubted acts of war. They i J were of the same class and motlfed ; lEU by the same purpose as the rebellion , of Easter Week Borne of the Judges who made !he awai.ls have endorsed uBB tills view from the bench. pflH The Rrltlsh governnent paid out of the Imperial Exchequer for the Bm damage done In Easter week They ap-proprlated ap-proprlated $15,000,000. out of which (Yang- the mined portions of the city of Dub- mBLW lln are being rebuilt. They are now being asked by resolutions of the KlK ('.rand Juries of Irish countries, which iB consists almost entirely of Unionists, VLW to follow the Easter Week precedent and to pay out Imperial funds for the IH damage now frequently being done to tH fe and property. IH Tho government has been quite wll- jH ling to pay for the damase done bv Bt the soldiers and polloe, In the oases ol ! retaliation that have occurred In Thurles and P'ermov, but they are un-willing. un-willing. It Is reported, to pay for the 11 damage done by their opponents. H Meanwhile, the victims are left wlth- H out compensation |